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White wedding dresses are challenged by the daring intrusion of red bridal dresses. Traditional brides are disconcerted; everything held dear in wedding traditions are upended and brides are seeing red!
Should You Do Red?
A bride in fiery red? That would be the day and the day has come. In Europe daring brides have worn red in the last ten years and the fever is catching on elsewhere on the globe. How about you, would you try to be different and wear red instead of the traditional white wedding dress? Rumblings and violent opposition might meet your choice but if you do want to wear red there is nothing wrong with marching down the aisle in a blood-red flowing bridal dress. In the future, more brides will be wearing red.
Traditionally, white is for brides; it has nothing to do with some mumbo jumbo, but rather the symbolism attached to the color white. White wedding dresses spell purity, fidelity, and steadfastness, signifying the desired qualities in a marriage. But times are fast changing. Women have been liberated from the traditional meek housewife mold. So should you wear a red wedding dress? Why not?
Women are blazing trails and have intruded into the careers that have been the exclusive of men and now the gender equation is no longer 70 to 30 but veering towards 50-50. If you are courageous, daring and love passionately, the color red is for you. In some societies the color red represents joy, purity, and celebration and it is a belief that red attracts good fortune. So what’s the fuss over brides wearing red instead of white wedding dresses?
It’s all about the symbolism of color and the circumstances surrounding the selection of white for a wedding dress. But back in the Middle Ages, brides could wear any color but they opted for other colors rather than white because white dresses were difficult to clean up in those days. As a concession to the traditional symbolism of color, brides wore a blue ribbon or band to symbolize purity to go with their wedding dresses, which were anything that was special and could be worn repeatedly for special events.
Choosing the Wedding Dress
Choosing a red wedding dress expresses your true self-expression. You are passionate and independent and your love is true. Aren’t all brides in the same boat? But when it comes to choosing your wedding gown or dress, always follow the rules. The dress should showcase your best features and have a good comfortable fit. In the matter of accessorizing your dress, you can go for gold and silver trimmings for accent. Red wedding dresses, like their white sisters have versatility.
Special Services for Red Brides
Brides wearing hot red numbers for wedding dresses should exploit special effects and services to highlight her unusual choice for a bridal dress. For an evening rite, she could ask for special fireworks to announce her eventual appearance to the wedding ceremony and arrive in a private chauffeur service. In the reception, she does well to have welcome baskets teeming with local specialties and containing an elegantly printed program for arriving guests and a red rose handed out to each female guest

Amrita Rao Hairstyle

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Malaika Arora Hot WAllpaper

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Malaika Arora

Lux Style Awards 2010 Pakistan

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Lux Style Awards 2010 Pakistan

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Milan Fashion Week Spring 2011: Donatella Versace Goes Dolce and Westwood!!

Donatella Versace’s secondary collection, Versus, is usually short, tight – and dark for fall and pink and blue for spring. But for this spring, Versus looks more like it came from Vivienne Westwood or Dolce & Gabbana – or it could be the love child of both of them. Why? Most of the dresses were close to the body – girdle-like, actually – and well over the knee, which is the dress shape and silhouette that’s signature to Dolce & Gabbana. They could have been straight out of Dolce collection. The first group were all in primary color plaids: red, blue and yellow. Do people wear plaid in the spring? Not even Burberry goes that far. Plaid is very definitely associated with fall. The second group of either dresses, or tops and bottoms, were in tiny florals that were quite pretty – but Donatella couldn’t leave well enough alone, and started mixing the plaids with the florals. Then she added obi sashes – a big trend for spring – and her last group was a color block of many solids in one dress that just didn’t work at all. The full floral dresses are cute, but they are very Dolce & Gabbana derivative. The rest just don’t work at all, they’re too loud, too bright, and too over the top – even for Versace? Will anyone in Hollywood wear these? They won’t have to, because Donatella will put them in couture.

A model walks the runway during the Etro Milan Fashion Week Menswear Spring/Summer 2011 on June 21, 2010 in Milan, Italy.

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Milan Fashion Week 2010

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Milan fashion week: People everyone's talking about

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Jess Cartner-Morley eavesdrops at Milan fashion week to find out which names are on everyone's lips.

Milan fashion week: Katie Holmes on the front row at Maxmara. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images

Katie Holmes

Mrs Tom Cruise was the star turn of the day, pitching up for Maxmara's show in a chocolate-coloured jumpsuit and sensible camel cashmere coat. But: no Suri! Surely the little high-heeled one would have loved a trip to Milan fashion week.

Meredith Koop

First-lady fashion is an industry obsession, and 29-year-old Koop has been outed as Michelle Obama's secret weapon in the struggle for supremacy between Flotus and the Dior-clad Carla Bruni. Koop used to work for Ikram Goldman, the Chicago boutique owner who acted as unofficial wardrobe advisor during the Obama campaign.

Britt Lintner

The American-born, London-based fashion designer left a job as a hedge fund manager because she couldn't find any nice outfits to wear to work, priorities for which we wholeheartedly salute her. She now makes clothes aimed squarely at executive women. Sarah Brown has long been a fan, a fact of which we were reminded in titbits from Behind The Black Door this week: "London G20 summit about to kick off. I change into Britt Lintner dress and nice Jimmy Choo stilettos."

Florence and the Machine

Ms Welch was named by Gucci designer Frida Giannini as the inspiration for the floor-length (but with sexy thigh-high split, natch – this is Gucci) dresses which featured in Gucci's 90th anniversary show this week. Giannini reckons she can picture Flo wearing one on stage. Look out for Ms Welch in a ruby or emerald Gucci chiffon number at a festival near you this summer.

Coco Sumner

Her live turn was the highlight of Gucci's super-glitzy after-party, which was impressively late and lively for a 90-year-old. Looks like Signora Giannini is partial to a British songstress (see above).

Massimo Dinoia

No, you won't have heard of him, but this man has more influence than anyone over the fate of one of the biggest names in Italian fashion – he's the lawyer hired by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to defend them in their tax fraud case. A preliminary hearing last Friday in the case was adjourned. Fact fans: Dinoia also represents "Ruby the heart stealer", the teenager at the centre of Berlusconi's latest scandal.

Jeff Rudes

The founder and CEO of J Brand jeans has scored a coup by signing up Christopher Kane to design a denim range. Expect to see a lot of Kane for J Brand jeans on dressed-down fashion editors catching the early-morning flight to Milan next season.

Stefano Pilati

That YSL designer Pilati is about to leave/get fired is one of the longest running rumours ever to take hold of the fashion world – it's been around for years, and Pilati recently signed a new three-year contract. But the whisper was back in the front row this week, after a publicist for Kenzo tweeted a 'blind' (but totally obvious to anyone in the industry) item suggesting Pilati's dismissal was imminent. We shall see. Expect this one to run and run.

Oliver Theyskens

Spotted front row at the Prada show, and no doubt very gratified by the high number of fashion editors in attendance wearing Oliver Theyskens for Theory.

London Fashion Week Catwalk,Dresses,And accessories

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London Fashion Week launches with Ethical Catwalk Shows and a Sustainable Clothing Action Plan.

A great marker of how the UK fashion industry regards the ethical fashion movement is the seasonal reaction to the Estethica exhibition, which showcases ethical and eco labels. While Estethica is the centre of TreeHugger's sartorial world, for other fashion reporters and buyers it has been seen as an annex that is all too easily by passed. But we're delighted to see that this season ethical fashion is the centre of attention. London Fashion Week was launched on Friday with a film introduction to Estethica and a catwalk show from ethical label Noir. Click through for more images from their stunning collection...
Noir in The Telegraph
While unfortunately TreeHugger wasn't able to secure a front row seat for the Noir show, luckily fashion luminaries such as Hilary Alexander were there to tell us what they thought. Writing for The Telegraph Hilary described the collection:
"Directional pieces in leather, stretch wool, satin and lamé, which involved minimal seaming. Raw-edge, leather shirt-dresses were wrapped around the body and belted; black leather sleeves became an “add-on” to sleeveless dresses in midnight-blue or pewter satin. Spirograph-print tunics were bloused with wide belts or worn with skinny leggings in a mix of stretch and wool. Best were Noir’s billowing, hardly-seamed-or-stitched-at-all, long toga-robes, in black or ink-blue silk satin, caught on shoulder or hip with a few gathers, which streamed behind the models like windsocks."

Sustainable Clothing Action Plan
Lucy Siegle, writing for The Guardian, highlighted the speech given by Government minister Lord Hunt, at the launch of London Fashion Week, announcing Defra's Sustainable Clothing Action Plan.
"Government departments don't normally vie with the likes of Matthew Williamson on the catwalk. So this is new territory and conjures up disturbing visions of runway shows featuring ill-dressed ministers. But unless Lord Hunt, minister for sustainability, wears something truly spectacular, it'll be a straightforward but significant announcement about government and industry working together to combat throwaway fashion."
Developing awareness of sustainable clothing
Hilary Alexander also mentioned the action plan which is "backed by 300 different organisations, including major high street brands, such as Marks & Spencer...Tesco, Sainsbury and Oxfam, as well as eco-chic labels such as Adili, Continental and Fairtrade. The action plan is committed to expanding the development and awareness of sustainable clothing from textiles – such as organic and Fairtrade cottons, and bamboo and nettle fibres – right through to the charity shop, where unwanted clothing can be resold or recycled."
No doubt Noir's eco-glamour contrasted strangely with Lord Hunt's eco-substance, but it's fantastic to see not only ethical labels such as Noir being given on-schedule catwalk shows for the first time, but also the Government and mainstream industry taking ethical fashion seriously.
Summer Rayne Oakes + Prophetik's Catwalk
Later on Friday evening TreeHugger was able to join the very upbeat ethical fashion crew at Summer Rayne Oakes's Style, Naturally book launch and Prophetik's catwalk show in west London. Both Lucy Siegle and Orsola de Castro, curator of Estethica, attended and were full of excitement about this successful day for ethical fashion. Orsola said she had never seen the Estethica exhibition so packed with people and she was delighted that almost every designer was talking about their work to someone.
Let's hope all this attention for Estethica translates directly into sales so that the UK ethical fashion industry can push through the credit crunch and demonstrate the future of the fashion industry.

Kate Moss At London Fashion Week.

London Fashion Week Feb 2011

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Hottest trends, luxurious outfits and enthralling presentations by international seasoned fashion designers is all about newly bashing London fashion week.

London fashion week is excitingly bashing fashion world from 18 February 2011 and the British Fashion Council (BFC) is striving to bring fashion at broader level for large audiences in London by providing commuters, shoppers and tourists the opportunity to watch latest from the shows.

Also, the British label Burberry will stream all of the runway highlights across 150 countries on the iconic 32 meter digital screen in Piccadilly Circus, London.

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Autumn/winter 2011 collections at London Fashion Week (LFW) in February.
Returning to show on schedule this season are luxury British brand Aquascutum and Temperley London, who celebrate their 10th anniversary. They will join current LFW catwalk designers including Antonio Berardi, Burberry Prorsum, Jonathan Saunders, Matthew Williamson and Pringle of Scotland, as well as our emerging BFC NEWGEN sponsored by Topshop talents.
New to the presentation schedule for February are J. JS Lee and Les Chiffoniers.
British heritage menswear brand, Alfred Dunhill, will show at London Fashion Week, hosting an intimate style salon show on Tuesday evening as a prelude to Menswear Day, Wednesday 23rd February.
Showing at LFW’s dedicated Menswear Day for the first time is Cassette Playa, who will be showcasing her luxury streetwear collection on the catwalk.
Modern menswear tailoring label Mr Start and luxury heritage brand Bally will debut at London Fashion Week in February. Both will show their collections on the presentation schedule for Menswear Day.
London Fashion Week will run from Friday 18th – 23rd February 2011 and will be located at Somerset House, Strand WC2.

Moss asked for passport at Fashion Week

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Kate Moss might be one of the most recognisable women in the world, but she apparently had to show her passport to gain entry at the London Fashion Week reception at Downing Street on Monday.

The 37-year-old supermodel had to brandish her official documents to get past police vetting guests arriving at the do, hosted by British Prime Minister's wife Samantha Cameron to celebrate the UK's fashion industry, reports the Daily Mail.

Moss had certainly scrubbed up for the occasion, looking immaculate in a black sequinned dress, with matching black jacket, tights and stilettos, with just a slash of fuchsia pink lipstick by way of colour.

Legendary photographer Mario Testino squired the star into the event just before hostess Samantha arrived back from the afternoon's Burberry show in Kensington.

The First Lady quickly changed from her casual outfit of an Osman beige shirt-jacket, cream sill Whistles shirt, charcoal cropped trousers and Zara shoes from earlier in the day into a sleek black frock to welcome her fashionista guests for cocktails and canapes.